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Fire destroys KITH apartments
Denny Fest brings out the love
Organization estimates damage at $100,000 to one of the Salisbury buildings and hosed the tree. Then he was gone. kitchen fire damDickerman said he aged four units prevented the fire from at the Salisbury damaging two other Court apartments on apartment buildings and Aug. 6. The apartshe said she would like to ments were owned by thank him. the Kirkland Interfaith “I don’t know who he Transitions in Housing, is but it was really great,” a nonprofit that seeks to Dickerman said. “It was help the homeless on the wonderful to see the Eastside and in the Puget neighbors ask how they Sound area. could help.” No one was hurt in the Many neighbors offered fire, but one of the four to help the tenants move tenants was left without a and some even brought home. Executive direcpastries. tor of KITH The Red Jan DickerCross partman said nered with the woman KITH staff is staying to help the with family residents at this time. and neighTwo tenants bors cope have found with the housing trauma of it through all. Dickerother KITH man said housing oppeople are portunities struggling and one was with the A fire at the Salisbury Court already in accident but apartments damaged four the process she is “very units, including this kitchen. of moving grateful” CONTRIBUTED PHOTO to another no one was home. hurt. Neighbors The building that was reported the fire at about damaged will likely need noon and the Kirkland complete renovation. Fire Department quickly Dickerman expects it to responded. take about a month for “The fire departrestoration and will cost ment was there so fast,” more than $100,000. Dickerman said in a The community can news release. “We deeply help by donating houseappreciate every one hold paper products, of the firefighters and canned food, laundry emergency response team detergent and monetary members who worked so donations for the costs hard to put out this fire beyond the insurance and to be sure it could coverage. None of the not reignite.” tenants had renter’s inBut before firefighters surance. arrived it was reported Financial gifts can be that a man, thought to mailed by check to KITH be a vendor nearby, saw at 125 State Street South an adjacent tree on fire. Kirkland, WA 98033 or According to witnesses, online at www.kithcares. he brought a garden hose org.
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BY RAECHEL DAWSON
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Hundreds pack O.O. Denny Park for annual neighborhood event
Above, Michael-Ellyn Schetzle and her dog Diesel won the dog kissing contest during Denny Fest on Sunday. Far left, Dan Lees is awarded first place for the pumpkin pecan pie he baked. Center, rock band Natch’l Thang performs for the hundreds of residents that showed up for the annual event to celebrate the surrounding neighborhoods. RAECHEL DAWSON, Kirkland Reporter
Woman travels across country to find family BY RAECHEL DAWSON rdawson@kirklandreporter.com
Kirkland resident Marie Cragar was upset, when at 19, she learned her parents were her grandparents and her sister was her mother. But today, at 65, she couldn’t be more happy. Just a few weeks ago she flew across the country to meet her brothers and sisters for the very first time. “It went well, and really, it was like we had never been apart,” Cragar said. In 1946, Cragar’s mother and father met after World War II at a Seattle drive-in movie theatre. Her father had just gotten out of the
Navy and they married six months later. Shortly after, Cragar’s mother made the trip to Tucson, Ariz. - where her family was living - to give birth to Cragar. “She was worried at how my father was acting at the time. It was after World War II and he had some issues to deal with,” Cragar said. “She left me there with my grandparents to come back to Seattle and work things out with my dad.” But things never worked out and the two divorced in 1949. Her father moved to Kansas with his family. Her [ more FAMILY page 9 ]
From left, Marilyn Wind, Kirkland resident Marie Cragar, Cindy Bell, Richard Wind and George Wind pose during an emotional family reunion in August. Cragar searched for her father for years after finding out the persons she thought were her sister and parents were actually her biological mother and grandparents. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO